#monkey trap

“The first time my husband and I played Fallout 4 together we had just started, it was twilight in the game, and we came across one of those creepy toy monkeys. Suddenly the eyes lit up and it moved. My husband yelled “It’s a bomb!” and blew it to hell.”

“Those stupid monkeys in Fallout 4 highkey freak me out. Pretty sure I’ve had at least one nightmare after not shooting one bit me in the butt, and now I shoot them on sight.”

In some places, traps are made by cutting a hole in a coconut just big enough for a monkey’s hand, and then tying it to a tree with a banana inside. The monkey reaches in and grabs the banana, but gets stuck because it can’t get its hand out without letting go of the banana. All it needs to do is let go. Instead, it ends up in a stew. Monkeys are stubborn.Sometimes we cling to things — arguments,…

Why of course.

The monkey trap.

To catch the ghost monkeys.

The Danger of Getting What We Want

Tim Keller paraphrased and quoted a columnist back in the 1980’s in a recent sermon he gave. The columnist knew a number of celebrities personally. Keller paraphrased the columnist: “I knew them when they were working behind the counter the cosmetic counter at Macy’s, and I knew them when they were bouncers at the village clubs, and all that, and then they became famous, and they became movie…

Some more work on my Zodiak babs and stuff.

Kohaku lucifer goat (c) Kerry Louise Cameron